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"In the Arctic, the freedom to travel, hunt and make day-to-day decisions is
profoundly tied to cold and frozen conditions for much of the year. These
conditions are rapidly changing as the Arctic warms.
The Arctic is now seeing more rainfall when historically it would be snowing.
Sea ice that once protected coastlines from erosion during fall storms is
forming later. And thinner river and lake ice is making travel by snowmobile
increasingly life-threatening.
Ship traffic in the Arctic is also increasing, bringing new risks to fragile
ecosystems, and the Greenland ice sheet is continuing to send freshwater and
ice into the ocean, raising global sea level
In the annual
Arctic Report Card, released Dec. 13, 2022, we brought together
144 other Arctic scientists from 11 countries to examine the current state of
the Arctic system."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
